Design from Harper's Books, Inc.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. Black cloth boards with minor bumping to corners; near fine. In near fine photo-illustrated jacket.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. An impressive monograph on the designs of George Nakashima, written by his daughter Mira, herself the Creative Director of his Studio following his death. Contents: [276] pages; thoroughly-illustrated after drawings and photographs, mostly… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, Inc., 1989. Fine in a fine jacket.. First Edition. Quarto. Monograph devoted to Alexey Brodovitch's significant contributions to American design, with emphasis on his legacy as the art director of Harper's Bazaar. Features 340 illustrations in color and black and white, including work by Brodovitch's collaborators and mentees Richard Avedon, Brassaï, Henri… Read more about this item

Hannover: Edition Copie, 1982. Very faint foxing to pages and light soling to the covers, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Octavo. Lamps and lighting fixtures designed by the Italian design collective UFO member Lapo Binazzi between 1973 and 1981. Illustrated with photographs and sketches in color and black and white.

New York: Visionaire, 1994. Sheets, booklet and publisher inserts near fine in near fine ill-fitting bone clasp dropback portfolio (slight glue residue on the verso).. Limited Edition. Clasp-bound quarto. Copy 1279 of 2000 numbered copies of the rare 5th installment of this heralded limited edition publication, Fall 1994, which mixed fashion, design and pop culture and to create… Read more about this item

[Lexington]: IBM, [1957]. Inked sheets retain carbon and odor, gathered in very good card chemise with a few light creases. Opening tab does not close and has a small abrasion.. Quarto sheets in folder. Unused carbon paper in folder by Paul Rand. Sheets enclosed decorated with alternate wagon wheel arrangement of IBM logo. Rand's colorized version of the… Read more about this item

Baden: The German Design Council and Lars Müller Publishers, 1997. Front end-paper has a closed tear along the bottom 2 inches of the hinge, there are a few tiny specks to the top page-edges, and the covers have light rubbing, else near fine in gilt-stamped red cloth.. First Edition. Thick octavo. SIGNED and briefly inscribed by Kalman: "CHAIRS… Read more about this item

London: Phaidon, 2000. Light soiling to the covers and bottom page edges, else near fine in pink silk cloth.. First Edition. Thick quarto. SIGNED and briefly inscribed by Bruce Mau in the year of publication to architecture critic Herbert Muschamp: "For Herbert / with thanks / Bruce Mau / N.Y. 14. 11. 2000." Over 600 pages filled with… Read more about this item

Torino: Pressa la Casa Editrice Chiantore di Torino, 1949. Rear hinge split with a small divot to the rear spine gutter (not affecting pages), front hinge has a smaller split, foxed at top edge; a very good copy (binding is tight) in an almost very good jacket, worn but complete, with the publisher's bellyband (worn).. First Edition. Large… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Salon de Coo, N.d.. Fine in printed wrappers.. Unknown edition. Oblong duodecimo. Japanese edition of what appears to be the first flip-book published by Yoji Kuri in his Salon de Coo series of artist books; this book is identified as COO11, FLIP1, Cartoon6. The flip-book animates a room filled with Kuri's surreal and sometimes erotic cartoon figures… Read more about this item

Weert: Emmauuel Streets Steendrukkerji, 1930. Small splash bottom front cover, light spotting to pastdowns and endpapers; a very good copy, internally quite nice, in string-bound wrappers.. First Edition. Quarto. Company book for Emmanuel Smeets Steen, with many tipped-in examples of the company's graphic design and advertisements spanning 100 years. Preface by Henri Kuijpers. OCLC lists five copies, all… Read more about this item

Bloomington: McKnight & McKnight Publishing Company, 1956. A light scratch across the face of the printed boards, else near fine, no jacket, presumably as issued.. First Edition. Small quarto. Charming "do-it-yourself" instructions for building Eames-like mid-century modern furniture. illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and diagrams. Eccentric and pleasing book. Possibly intended as a high school shop… Read more about this item

Paris: Comme des Garçons, 1990. Several creases visible on sheet showing map of Paris, else near fine in a printed and non-circulated mailing envelope. Scarce.. First Edition. Invitation, four pieces in original mailing envelope. Elaborately produced invitation to the Comme des Garçons Homme Plus show, held on Friday, 2 February, 1990 at 7pm at the Musée National d'Histoire… Read more about this item

Newtonville, MA: International Data Corporation, 1965. Near fine in printed vinyl binder.. First Edition. Quarto sheets in three-ring binder. Advertisement for Honda laid in. Proceedings of an early commercially oriented computer conference, held on November 19th, 1964 in Newtonville, Massachusetts. The notebooks describe a wide range of computer equipment and applications. Speakers included computer science pioneer and antinuclear… Read more about this item

New York: Bell Systems, c. early 1960s. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Thin quarto, stapled. Sixteen page publication from Bell Systems designed by Ladislav Sutnar demonstrating various layout and typographic standards for display of the newly developed area code on business letterhead.

Hamilton: Champion Papers, c. 1950s. Near fine in printed wrappers.. First Edition. Pamphlet, stapled. Promotional booklet containing technical specifications, and color paper stock samples. Apparently designed by Ladislav Sutnar using his radically minimal information architecture tools and techniques. Sutnar had along relationship with Champion Papers of Hamilton, Ohio; he credits the quality of their "Kromekote" papers in the… Read more about this item

Hamilton: Champion Papers, c. 1950s. Near fine in printed wrappers.. First Edition. Pamphlet, stapled. Promotional booklet containing technical specifications, and color paper stock samples. Apparently designed by Ladislav Sutnar using his radically minimal information architecture tools and techniques. Sutnar had along relationship with Champion Papers of Hamilton, Ohio; he credits the quality of their "Kromekote" papers in the… Read more about this item

[New York: Sweet's, c. 1940s[. Slight crease to corner, overall near fine.. First Edition. Single sided signature. Catalog insert for Sweet's designed by Ladislav Sutnar for the American Measuring Instrument Corp. Rare example of single page design by Sutnar for the Sweet's catalogues.

[New York: ZE Records, 1979]. A few spots of discoloration to rear, else close to fine.. Silkscreened 12" record sleeve designed for ZE Records as an unrealized promotion for Lydia Lunch's first solo album, Queen of Siam. Rare piece of No Wave ephemera.

London: Lund Humphries, 1996. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First Edition. Quarto. Catalogue raisonné of printmaking work by the British painter John Piper. Profusely illustrated in color throughout.

Cincinnati / Hamilton: The Contemporary Arts Center and Champion Papers Inc., 1961. Near fine in stapled wrappers.. First Edition. Thin quarto. 16pp. Pamphlet promoting the traveling exhibition and book devoted to the work of Ladislav Sutnar. Black and white reproductions, with elaborate graphic design on multiple paper stocks.